For this week’s photo challenge, explore what it means to find your place in the world. Where’s your safe space? Where do you go when you need to feel inspired or cheered up? Do you prefer to feel cozy and comforted in a smaller town or do you thrive on the buzz of a big […]
Tag: South Australia
Our Growing Family
And it’s not even a baby on the way or a new pet! Chief and I headed to Adelaide last weekend to catch up with our children. We all used to live there but Chief and I fled the nest (way too early) to take up new opportunities in Brisbane – anyway, I digress. We […]
WPC: Sweet
This week’s challenge is to post a photograph of what sweet looks like to you and I’m putting a different take on this. I have learned that Queenslanders (or Australians in general or even people in general) use the expression ‘sweet’ when something is good or great. This could well be an expression picked up from […]
WPC: Silence
This week’s photo challenge is how to capture silence in a photograph. Is it a positive image, or is it the opposite, revealing the lack of communication in a friendship or the dangers of not speaking out? Show us your interpretation in a new post. Mine is a positive image of a peaceful beautiful place not […]
via Photo Challenge: Ascend This little fella had ascended into a gum tree for a feed of the youngest eucalyptus leaves but the effort was too much for him. Ascend
WPC: Serene

South Australia is my adoptive homeland and we spent the first 11 years of our Australian adventure there before moving to Brisbane. It was easy to find places of serenity in such a beautiful peaceful place. Be it in the vineyards of the Adelaide Hills or by the sea at Brighton these photos were, and […]
Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow

This may or may not be the right forum to delve into such matters as personal relationships but it’s time I duly ‘fessed up’. You see, besides my maturing marriage I have become deeply entrenched in another long-standing relationship. We’ve known each other a long time now but it’s only in recent years that ‘things’ […]
WPC: Evanescent

And this is also Word of the Day for me! evanescent adjective soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; quickly fading or disappearing. moment in time. An Easter sunset captured in Belair, South Australia and one I knew I wouldn’t be seeing again for a while. Evanescent
Wanderlust “a strong desire to travel.” This week I can absolutely relate to David W’ and the surreal sensation of standing on the opposite side of the world to your usual abode. I experienced this 12 years ago when we arrived in Sydney en-route to our new home in Adelaide. After seeing the photos of the […]
Weekly Photo Challenge: H2O
H2O, providing hours of fun skimming on the surface. H2O